Once again, they built this.
Hillary Clinton's increasingly dominant lead in the presidential race is solidifying many Republicans' worst 2016 fears that Donald Trump will cost the party not only the White House but also control of the Senate.
"The bottom is starting to fall out a little earlier than expected," says a top Senate GOP campaign aide who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of the race. "We started off with a very difficult map. No matter what, this was going to be a very difficult year."
The aide says Trump's ailing campaign is an additional drag on the Senate battlefield. The end result, the aide concedes, is a likely Democratic takeover this November.
Donald Trump was the obvious outgrowth of the rampant and unchecked hatred and disdain for President Obama exhibited by all Republicans but really led by Mitch McConnell. It's not helping at all that almost none of them is willing to break from Trump. They are embracing Trump and worse, Trumpism, and are now seeing the consequences of that.
It would be nice to think that this would be the beginning of McConnell and crew reconsidering what they've allowed the GOP to become. But it won't. The only hope that the GOP reforms and becomes a functioning participant in the nation's business is if they are crushed into the ground and have to completely rebuild. So let's get started on that crushing part.
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